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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Double; twofold; specifically, in ancient prosody, constituting the proportion of two to one: as, the diplasic ratio (of thesis and arsis); characterized by such a proportion of thesis and arsis: as, diplasic rhythm; a diplasic foot; the diplasic class (of feet).

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